Statehood in Times of Climate Change

Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Concept of States

von Frederick von Paepcke

239 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Climate change is a most complex, global challenge for the international community and for international law. The tremendous negotiation efforts in the last decades did not result in effective mitigation measures, leading to a rising need for adaptation. Amidst a myriad of challenges, some small island states face an existential threat of losing their state territory due to sea level rise, a situation without precedence. What happens to their statehood when they lose a constituent criterion of a state? This thesis argues for a claim to a new state territory. Due to the existence of such a claim, island states continue to exist even when their territory is inundated, as the lack of a territory is not necessarily permanent.

• Reihe: Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
• ISBN: 9783631659007
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.11.2014
• Genre: Recht/Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften